The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-18
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Pacific Commercial Advertiser
LATEST NEWS.
Dates to April 9th Inclusive by the
Alameda,

Alameda,
The Intercolonial Conference was opened
at the Foreign Office, London, April 4th,
by the Premier, who addressed the mem
bers. He was followed by Sir Henry Hol-
land, Colonial Secretary; Lord Granville,
and Mr.. Stanope, Secretary of War.
An officer of the Russian army fired at
the Car in the Park at Gatschina, but
missed him. He was arrested.
The weeks vacation of the Reichstag
gives pause in legislative news Among
the first of the Government proposals to
be submitted when the Reichstag meets
again will be Military Railway bill, pro-
viding for the construction of important
strategic lines in South Germany, includ-
ing the Bode-Zee railway, designed to
avoid Swiss territory.
The City of Peking, from HongkOng
and Yokohama, is quarantined at San
Francisco, having smallpox on board.
She brings eleven hundred coolies. There
are three well defined cases of smallpox.
The City of Toxic has been lighted by
electricity.
foundered. She struck a sunken rock on
Belts Chain reef, on the trip from Ma
naimo to Port Townsend. No lives lost.
The roof of the church at Linguaglossa,
Sicily, fell without warning during the seI-
vices April I'd, burying beneath it 100 per-
sons, forty of whom were killed and in
jured.
A Lahore paper announces that the
Ameer of Afghanistan is seriously
alarmed at the discovery that number of
native tribes are combining against him,
and has appealed to the Indian authOri-
ties for help and advice. The dissatisfied
Afghans assert that the country has been
secretly sold to the British, and that the
railway to Candahar has been sanctioned
by the Amer to facilitate their advance.
The fanatical element of the people is
rampant against the Amer, who has re-
moved his treasures to Fyzabad, a town of
India on the Goggra river, whittier he will
retire himself if he is defeated by his dis
satisfied subjects. Other accounts say the
Ghilzeas are restless under the Ameer's
tyranny, and have asked the Indian au-
thorities to depose him.
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt in
both Antigua and st. Kits April 4th.
The Trinidad journal" says that cut
ter belonging to the American man-of-war
Saratoga was capsiZed off La Brea, and
that five of its occupants were drowned.
A dispatch from Russia says Katkoff has
received his death warrant from the Revo-
lutionary Executive Committee at ST.
Petersburg.
The Belgium Chamber of Deputies has
passed, by vote of Sc to 9. bill permit
ting the Free Congo State to issue a lot
terry loan to the amount of 10000, 900 |
francs
The appointment of w. J. Bryan, John
F. Swift and J. P. Irish as commissioners |
to select a site for the new San Francisco
Post Office has created no little astonish- |
ment among Californians.
The British tramp steamer Carmona,
which left Barrow, England, February
18th, has not arrived at New York, and is
given up as lost with all hands on board
The vessel was commanded by Captain
j. a. Holcrow and had crew os thirty
three men.
special from Vi1iti, 1. T., says: A
terrible explosion occurred to-day at Sa-
wanna, in coal shaft No. 2, by which six
miners were killed. A recruiting party
was soon organized and sent down into
the mine, but they were overpowe cred by
the gas and twelve were suffocated before
they could be taken out, making eighteen
dead in all. The mines are worked mainly
by foreigners, and most of the victims are
Italians.
A special to the Mail and Express"
from Contoocook IN. H. } says: Distinct
earthquake tremors terrified the inhabi-
tants of this place April 9Th The vibra-
tions came from the East. and loud deto-
nations were heard like claps of thunder.
The cracking of the frozen ground and the
breaking of ice in the ponds added to the
noise. The shocks lasted about a minute.
Captain Dabney of the British steamship
Erbinger, from Rio Marina with iron ore,
reports peculiar and unexplained phe-
aomenon occurring at sea on the night of
March 21st. The steamer was on the outer
. Ige of the Gulf stream. There was no sea
IN and the wind was very light. The water
registered IS degrees. Suddenly there was
mighty upheaval in the sea. The port
ide of the vessel struck with such force
hat she treInbled violently. The sea swept
lear over the vessel. filling the decks, en-
ine-room and stoke-hole. and endanger-
ns the lives of the men below. The sea
ept up 3 violent agitation for two hours,